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Who said romance was dead? Domino’s Pizza said yesterday that it had enjoyed a record takings on Valentine’s Day as couples opted for a night on the sofa rather than a candle-lit dinner for two.

Lance Batchelor, its chief executive, said that the occasion was already one of the pizza delivery operator’s busiest days thanks to the Two for Tuesday promotion, but he had been surprised at the spike in sales as “romantics decided to curl up at home with a couple of pizzas”.

He and his colleagues had expected the Valentine’s Day record to be topped by England’s final